State Security Council Act of 2018

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State Security Council Act of 2018
A bill to establish the State Security Council

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Firestone in Congress Assembled,

SECTION I. SHORT TITLE; GENERAL PROVISIONS.

  1. Short Title. — This Act may be cited as the “State Security Council Act of 2018”.
  2. Severability. — This Act shall be severable, such that if any word, phrase, line, sentence, or provision of this Act, or the application of any of them to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, their application to other persons or circumstances, and the remainder of this Act shall not be affected thereby. Any newer law shall not supersede this Act unless that law specifically declares its intent to supersede this Act’s provisions.
  3. Effective Date. — This Act shall go into effect immediately following enactment.

SECTION II. ESTABLISHMENT

  1. There is hereby established a council to be known as the State Security Council (hereinafter in this title referred to as the “Council”), and as a body in the Office of the Governor.
  2. The function of the Council shall be to advise the Governor with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the state security so as to enable the military services and the other departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate more effectively in matters involving the state security.

SECTION III. MEMBERSHIP

  1. The following members will be apart of the Council’s Principles Committee,

  2. Governor

  3. Lieutenant Governor

  4. Chief of Staff

  5. Secretary of State

  6. Attorney General

  7. Secretary of Homeland Security

  8. Secretary of Public Safety

  9. Major General of the National Guard

  10. Any other member invited by the Governor.

  11. The following members will be apart of the Council’s Deputies Committee,

  12. Deputy Secretary of State

  13. Deputy Attorney General

  14. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

  15. Deputy Secretary of Public Safety

  16. Brigadier General of the National Guard

  17. Any other member invited by the Governor.

SECTION IV. COUNCIL RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. In addition to performing such other functions as the Governor may direct, it shall, subject to the direction of the Governor, be the duty of the Council—

  2. to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the State of Firestone in relation to actual and potential military power, in the interest of state security, for the purpose of making recommendations to the Governor in connection therewith;

  3. to oversee, regulate, and decide blacklists from the Executive Branch; and

  4. to oversee, regulate, and decide state security threats; and

  5. to consider and make binding policies on matters of common interest to the intelligence community and other agencies concerned with intelligence and/or state security.

  6. The Council shall—

  7. have all powers necessary to complete any functions or responsibilities to which it is delegated,

  8. be an effective means of policy discussion that may accurately and effectively direct the state security apparatus of the State of Firestone,

  9. have the authority, by majority vote, to order members of the State Security Council or members of the executive branch to produce documents or to accomplish certain tasks as they may deem appropriate,

  10. be used as a debate forum for the state security council members,

  11. perform all other powers and responsibilities delegated by the Governor.

  12. promulgate written resolutions that may affect state-security policies amongst Executive departments and agencies.

SECTION V. STATE SECURITY THREATS

  1. Individuals and organizations who partake in, provide material support for, solicit, or are otherwise maliciously involved with illegal activities that constitute threats to the state security of the State of Firestone, in the eyes of the Council, may be declared state security threats.

  2. Members of organizations declared state security threats shall be considered state security threats ex officio.

  3. State departments, agencies, and other such bodies may not be declared state security threats. Transnational threats identified as per Section VI of this bill shall be considered a category of state security threats. Transnational threats need not require a vote to be identified as transnational threats, but a vote is required to treat them as full state security threats. To pass a transnational threat as a state security threat, a majority vote from the Council and written consent from the Governor of the State of Firestone (hereinafter in this Section referred to as the “Governor”) are required.

  4. State security threats, excepting those defined in subsection (a)(ii) of this Section, may be declared by a two-thirds vote of the Council followed by recorded consent from the Governor.

  5. The Secretary of Homeland Security may, at the direction of the Governor, declare interim state security threats with a duration of no more than seven days, after which such declaration must be confirmed by the Council and Governor or become null and void.

  6. Consent from the Governor is considered recorded if it is filed under a medium in which it may be recovered without undue difficulty.

  7. Those declared as state security threats shall be restricted, as determined by the Council S. 7 and the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security.

  8. Upon the expiration or revocation of a state security threat, punishments imposed on such former threat, as governed by Section 105(a)(vi) of this bill, shall be revoked, excepting placement on terrorist watchlists and blacklists from the intelligence community. The Governor may revoke placements on terrorist watchlists and blacklists from the intelligence community at any time.

  9. Those declared as state security threats may appeal such declaration to the Council; such declaration may only be revoked if, beyond reasonable doubt, the declaration is ungrounded in state law or regulation.

  10. The Governor may declare and revoke state security threats without the consent of the Council.

SECTION VI. TRANSNATIONAL THREATS

  1. The Council shall additionally be tasked with coordinating and directing the activities of the Firestone Government relating to combating transnational threats. To perform such, the Council shall—

  2. identify transnational threats;

  3. develop strategies to enable the Firestone Government to combat such threats;

  4. monitor the implementation of such strategies;

  5. make recommendations as to appropriate responses to specific transnational threats;

  6. assist in the resolution of operational and policy differences among State departments and agencies in their responses to transnational threats; and

  7. develop policies and procedures to ensure the effective sharing of information of transnational threats among State departments and agencies, including law enforcement agencies and the elements of the intelligence community.

  8. The Governor may, at his discretion, establish a committee within the Council to handle the functions prescribed within this Section; such committee may additionally be disbanded by the Governor at his discretion.

SECTION VII. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

  1. The Council shall additionally be tasked with—

  2. conducting a monthly review of the state security interests of the State of Firestone to identify the intelligence required to address such interests as specified by the Governor;

  3. identifying monthly, and at other times as the Council may require, the intelligence required to meet such interests and establish an order of priority for the collection and analysis of such intelligence; S. 7

  4. establishing priorities among the programs, projects, and activities that address such interests and requirements;

  5. establishing policies relating to the conduct of intelligence activities of the State of Firestone, including appropriate roles, missions, organization, and administration for the elements of the intelligence community and appropriate targets of intelligence collection activities; and

  6. conducting a monthly review of the elements of the intelligence community in order to determine the success of such elements in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating the intelligence identified under subsection (a)(ii) of this Section.

SECTION VIII. EXECUTIVE BRANCH BLACKLISTS

  1. The Council shall be tasked with overseeing, regulating, and managing executive branch blacklists.

  2. The Council or the Governor shall have the power to declare intelligence community blacklists.

  3. The Council may blacklist individuals from the executive branch through a majority vote of its members.

  4. The Governor may declare and revoke intelligence community blacklists without the consent of the Council.

SECTION IX. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR

  1. The Council shall, from time to time, make such recommendations and such other reports to the Governor as it deems appropriate or as the Governor may require.

Respectfully submitted to the Congress of the State of Firestone,

CHIEF SPONSOR:

Senator iSchwenzer

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